PEOPLE living in Scotland have been tweeting in favour of an open and tolerant society following a week that saw unprecedented xenophobic rhetoric and policy pronouncements at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Under the hastag #WeAreScotland individuals took to the online platform twitter to express their varied cultural roots and how Scotland as a society has made them feel welcome.

The online trend started in response to an SNP tweet in which Nicola Sturgeon denounced anti-immigrant sentiment and follows a week where the post Brexit UK Government under Theresa May has taken a more strident line on immigration and foreign workers, hoping to shift the political centre ground in England to the right.